It always could have been more, but being about to pay off the truck was pretty cool! Any profit is better than none (or a hypothetical one).
Yes, the shorter power-down period now is much nicer! What was it back then—6 months?
I don't remember for certain, but 6 months sounds right. I get that the idea was to not let value bleed out too quickly, but I missed out on quite a bit of value as the price declined during the power-down.
Given the insane amounts some of those posts were making first year, I can kind of understand making powering down more difficult.